A Collaborative Approach Towards Interfaith Dialogue

Humanity is faced with enormous social and cultural challenges that have been used as an engine of conflict and violence. Discrimination against human beings due to their religion, or perceived religious, national, or ethnic identity does undermine any attempts to build a culture of peace and collaboration of different faiths. In this regard, interfaith dialogue focuses on interreligious dialogue and the importance of respect and appreciation for the other religions. It is an approach that brings together people who believe that they have something to learn from the others. People who are willing to respect and share the sacred wisdom of each religion while trying to deepen their roots in their own traditions.

This paper aims at investigating possible ways of increasing effective communication that enables people from different faiths to hear about each other and come into a direct contact with each other. The premise is that the world is in dire need of dialogue and tolerance as opposed to conflict and confrontation. The three major points to be discussed are tolerance, acceptance and engagement.

Ben Filali Ismail received his university education at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, DharLmahraz, Fez. He got a BA Degree in Linguistics in 2004. He got a DESA Degree in Staff Development and Research in Higher Education in 2006, and he got a Doctorate Degree in Applied Linguistics in 2015. He has taught in several schools since 2002. He was a part-time teacher of English at the Faculty of Letters, Fez (2006-2007). He was a teacher of Arabic and Middle Eastern Culture at Quincy College, Massachusetts (2007-2008). He is currently a professor of English at Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Sais, Fez. He is also a teacher of English at the American Language Center of Fez and a Teacher of Arabic at the Arabic Language Institute of Fez (ALIF).

That globalization has caused great changes in the texture of cultures, discourses, and cultural practices is not open to doubt. Besides, cultural encounters, shocks, and clashes have increased, and so have their accompanying discourses and narratives. The need for multi-perspective and multicultural approaches has become imperative to reconsider conventional discourses of assimilation or absorption of differences which undermine diversity.

The conference aims to shed light on issues pertaining to language, culture, and religion, at large from, a pluri-disciplinary and/or multicultural perspective for a better understanding of the multiple, multi-faceted, and highly complex relations between the three pivotal components of the triad, language, culture, and religion.

Focal interest areas include (but are not limited to) tvhe following topics:

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